When
running down the laundry list of modern threats to freedom and liberty
in America, atop that list is the corrupt and anti-constitution nature
of today’s judicial branch. Without a genuine respect for the
rule of law and reverence for the supreme law of this land inside the
judicial branch, JFK is right – an absence of peaceful solutions
will always result in violent revolution.

"When
governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear
the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect
themselves against tyranny in government." – Thomas
Jefferson

It
didn’t take long for Jefferson to recognize the one major flaw
in the U.S. Constitution.

"At
the establishment of our Constitutions, the judiciary bodies were
supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government.
Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the
most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their
removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that
their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass
silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions nevertheless
become law by precedent, sapping by little and little the foundations
of the Constitution and working its change by construction before
any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been
busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made
to be trusted for life if secured against all liability to account."
--Thomas Jefferson to A. Coray, 1823. ME 15:486

Our
founders entrusted the power to interpret the constitution and law to
the 3rd branch, the judicial branch. At the time, the term “interpret”
was limited by definition to – To explain the meaning of words
to a person who does not understand them; to expound; to translate unintelligible
words into intelligible ones; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to
an Englishman.

But
by Jefferson’s letter to Coray in 1823, it had already become
clear that lifetime political appointees would soon expand the definition
of their own power, to interpretations driven by political motives and
limited only by the imagination.

Today,
we watch a daily diet of judicial tyranny and terrorism to the degree
that we are no longer shocked or even dismayed.

•
States have no 10th Amendment rights, told by the courts that all federal
law trumps state law• The US Constitution does not say what is says,
it says what the courts imagine it to say• The people have “no standing” to
know who is sitting in their White House• The will of 70% is trumped by social justice
according to 30%

Arizona
cannot secure its border or protect its citizens from invasion and drug
wars spilling across from Mexico.

New
York cannot balance its state budget without federal approval, which
is based upon labor union agreement.

Citizens
only have the rights that the ruling class elite are willing to afford
on any given day, so long as those rights are not used to speak out
against the ruling class elite, in which case you have already been
identified by Homeland Security as a “potential domestic terrorist.”

This
is what we can expect when the people have forgotten to be forever vigilant
for decades, leaving the running of this nation of, by and for the people,
in the hands of elected snake oil salesmen and women.

Today,
the power structure in America is turned upside-down. The Founders gave
birth to a nation and government of, by and for the people. Today, our
government and nation runs at odds with the vast majority of the people.

In
priority of greatest power –

1.
The lame stream press – he who controls information controls public
sentiment and decisions2. The nine member oligarchy known as the Supreme Court
limited only by their imagination3. The Executive Branch is free to appoint Czar’s
outside of congressional or judicial oversight and issue any law it
wants under executive order4. The Legislative Branch is no longer limited by the
enumerated powers in the U.S. Constitution5. States no longer have representation via the U.S.Senate
now subservient to the Fed6. States have no 10th Amendment rights7. The people are slaves to their rulers spending them
generations into debt

In
short, the current state of our union today is far worse than that which
caused our nation’s founders to break from England and toss tea
into the Boston Harbor.

The
people fear their government. The government is only mildly irritated
by those “right-wing extremists” willing to speak out in
opposition.

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We
are no longer allowed to discuss God in government or good government
in church. Our current White House resident announced to the world that
we are no longer a Christian nation, despite our entire history rooted
deeply in Judeo-Christian principles and values of individual free will.

But
on March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry stood in St. John’s church in
Richmond Virginia for the sole purpose of presenting the most famous
political speech in American history.

Most
American’s are familiar with the closing sentence of this speech
– “I know not what course others may take; but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death!”

However,
few American’s are familiar with the
entire speech or related history concerning the orator, Patrick
Henry. There was no prewritten speech, no speech writers and no teleprompter.
Henry was not one of the more successful men of his time, having spent
more time failing than succeeding.

Yet
he was passionate about individual freedom and liberty and when he spoke
at St. John’s Church that day, he spoke eloquently from the heart.
More importantly, his words are as appropriate today as they were in
1775.

“Mr.
President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to
the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this
the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for
liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having
eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly
concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of
spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know
the worst, and to provide for it.”

And
so it is today… when truth is so frightening that the lies are
preferred by many in society. In 1775, there were those who mocked Henry,
as a radical or warmonger. There were others who preferred to negotiate
peace at the price of liberty.

However,
Henry was firm…

“They
tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable
an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week,
or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when
a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather
strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means
of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging
the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us
hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those
means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions
of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country
as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy
can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles
alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations;
and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle,
sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active,
the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough
to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There
is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged!
Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable²and
let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.”

There
is but one significant difference between 1775 and today and that difference
is the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution and Bill of Rights had yet
to be written, much less ratified and implemented.

Today,
we face the same threat to individual freedom and liberty, this time
largely from within the hall of our own elected government. However,
we have a peaceful remedy that did not exist in 1775, the U.S. Constitution
and Bill of Rights, which have indeed stood the test of time.

“It
is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace,
Peace²but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next
gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of
resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand
we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price
of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not
what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give
me death!”

Our
state of the union is threatened because the Constitution is not presently
in full force or effect. The remedy is to resurrect this document returning
it to its proper place as the supreme law of this land. The only thing
standing in the way is our corrupt Judicial Branch, which imagines its
power as an oligarchy, where only a select few are free to rule over
all others via judicial fiat.

Jefferson
was right and so was Henry.

Our
Justice Branch presents the greatest threat to individual freedom and
liberty in America. Without strict adherence to the Constitution and
principles of free-will within, there can be no personal or economic
freedom and liberty.

But
a nation, in which the judiciary rests all decisions upon the brilliant
works of our founders, can be forever free and prosperous.

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"What
is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or
peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but
as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

What
God has made free, let no man enslave.

It
is not the Constitution that should be judged by the courts, but rather
the courts that must be judged by the Constitution. In this country,
the American people are the only rightful jury.

JB Williams
is a business man, a husband, a father, and a writer. A no nonsense
commentator on American politics, American history, and American philosophy.
He is published nationwide and in many countries around the world. He
is also a Founder of Freedom Force USA and a staunch conservative actively
engaged in returning the power to the right people in America.